Baking is certainly an art-form, and using a great flour makes your baked goods delicious & beautiful. Whether you’re baking a basic bread, cookies for the kids, or something more fanciful & substantial like a pastry crust for quiche, using a flour that’s of high quality is important. You want a flour that’s pure, is evenly & well ground, and that tastes...

This fabulously traditional recipe for How to Bake a Christmas Chocolate Log is perfect for the Holidays, even as a host/hostess gift. Chocolate log cakes are traditionally made & enjoyed for Christmas, but this cake can be made any time of the year. I found this spectacular recipe in an eBook called A Cornish Grandmother’s Family Favourites available on Amazon. In this...

Baking is certainly an art-form, and using a great flour makes your baked goods delicious & beautiful. Whether you’re baking a basic bread, cookies for the kids, or something more fanciful & substantial like a pastry crust for quiche, using a flour that’s of high quality is important. You want a flour that’s pure, is evenly & well ground, and that tastes good. Maybe you use flour in small batches, or you...

This fabulously traditional recipe for How to Bake a Christmas Chocolate Log is perfect for the Holidays, even as a host/hostess gift. Chocolate log cakes are traditionally made & enjoyed for Christmas, but this cake can be made any time of the year. I found this spectacular recipe in an eBook called A Cornish Grandmother’s Family Favourites available on Amazon. In this eBook, the Chocolate Christmas Log recipe uses the same...

This recipe for How to Bake Haskap Oatmeal Cookies will make everyone smile! These cookies have a nice crunch on the outside and a lovey chewy inside with dried haskap berries add a wonderful tang to the overall flavor. A lovely idea for a host/hostesss gift when visiting over the Holidays as well, these cookies are sure to please. Haskap Oatmeal Cookies: Haskapa is the brand name of the company that produces and processes haskap...

Haskap Fruit Moos is a quick, easy & stunningly delicious dessert you can throw together and impress everyone. The sweet, tangy taste of the haskap berry mixed with a fruit combinination for a lovely, warm, sweet treat for dessert, whether it’s for a mid-week dinner, Thanksgiving or even Christmas. The fruit moos I am making here is loaded with dried and fresh fruits including dried haskap berries, which I happen to have on...

You’ll love this recipe for How to Bake Haskap Apple Pie! This recipe is probably the best of the best recipes I have done for an apple pie. An absolutely beautiful star-burst or flower pattern presentation you can create on your pie with the crimson-purple haskap berries in the center, this pie is a stunner. The flavor of apple & haskap goes so well together with plump, tender pieces of apple and the dried haskap berries...

I am pleased to share with you, my sweet and decadent recipe for How to Make Haskapa Whipped Cream from scratch. Why settle for plain whipped cream, when you can jazz it up with Haskapa Jam? It takes something that’s already incredibly delicious and shoots it up on the flavor scale to beyond fabulous! Light, fluffy, sweet clouds of whipped cream with the flavor of the haskap berry is divine! It’s just right on Haskap Apple...

I am so pleased to share this recipe for How to Cook Haskap Apple Bread Stuffing with you! Pâté This stuffing has the delicious spices that we love, as well as apple and haskap berries, and then it’s stuffed into your bird of choice – ours being a turkey in this recipe. For Thanksgiving, Christmas or any other time, this stuffing will be a beautiful addition to your feast. The result is a flavor combination that makes a...

Napa Valley Vinegar Co. makes some of the most delicious balsamic vinegars I have ever tasted, and Napa Valley Bordeaux Cherry Balsamic Vinegar is one of them. This Napa Valley Bordeaux Cherry Balsamic Vinegar is syrupy, sweet and mellow, bursting with the flavor of delicious cherry puree and quality Bordeaux wine. Their vinegars are made with real fruit purees and fine wines to create their amazing balsamic vinegars. Their dark...

If you’ve never tried Napa Valley Blackberry Ginger Balsamic Vinegar, you have no idea what you’re missing out on! I never imagined that vinegars could have as many layers of intense flavor as the Napa Valley Vinegar Co. fine wine and fruit vinegars have, especially like the this blackberry ginger balsamic. This beautiful vinegar is made with blackberries, which gives it a definite fruity note, the ginger adds a touch of...

A beautiful addition to any festive feast is a fresh & delicious Holiday Bread – here’s some Thanksgiving Twists on the Traditional! Fluffy, white dinner rolls are very tasty and we usually serve them with our Holiday dinners. A wonderful staple, but this can be a bit, well, boring for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Let’s spice things up with some wonderful ideas for those Holiday get-togethers. Holiday Bread Ideas:...

I am very please to show you How to Toast Pumpkin Seeds, and I think you will find them to be a great snack. Pumpkin seeds, or pepitas, are full of healthy goodness for the kids and adults in your family. When I was last at Harvest Barn Country Market in Niagara-on-the-Lake, I was fortunate enough to find some beautiful sugar pumpkins. These beautiful, little pumpkins are perfect for pumpkin puree, and the seeds, are nice, big and...

I picked up some Mexican Key Limes from Harvest Barn Country Markets & I am so excited… I will be baking up a key lime pie, but let’s talk about these beautiful, shiny, little key limes! These limes are a lovely green color, they come in a nice mesh bag holding about 25 key limes to allow air circulation, and they smell amazing. Find out about this product on this webisode of What I Say About Food: The flavor of these...

If you have never tasted Haskapa Jam, there is a treat in store for you. This delicious jam is made with the berries of the haskap plant, which is indigenous to Russia, but is presently grown in most of the Canadian provinces as well. The haskap berry is dark, frosty, and purplish in color, oval in shape, about an inch long, with sweet, deep crimson flesh. The Haskapa Jam is chock full of amazing, plump, ripe, glistening berries. This...